Randy Twizzle

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/07/sports/b...&ei=5087%0A

This makes it even more infuriating that the pinheads who vote for HOF membership left him out once again this year. And not matter what we might think about Ken Burns from a jazz perspective, we should be grateful to him for featuring Buck O'Neil in "Baseball."

Well you're half right

I guess you've done so well with your "original picks" that you get the chance to be wrong again with your WS prediction.

When Bette Davis died in France in 1989, a friend of my brother's, who worked in the U.S. embassy in Paris was involved in making arrangements for the body to be sent back to the U.S. During his work he got to see her passport and noticed that she had scotch taped a 1940s photo of herself over the much less flattering contemporary passport picture.

I seem to be breaking all sorts of rules on this thread. Makes me feel kind of James Dean-like.

I don't seen anything political about it. It's simply a light-hearted look at Ephebophilia (which has nothing to do with modern jazz). Why this mania to delete things?

Radio historian Elizabeth McLeod has written extensively on the show. This is from http://www.midcoast.com/~lizmcl/aa.html

I visited Stereo Jack's this summer and bought this album among others.

Unlikely? I don't get it. It's more than likely. And this time it will be competitive, as opposed to that dreary 2000 series. Likely? Not nearly as likely as it seemed at mid-summer. The Mets have a deep lineup and a closer. Everything else is a question mark and they've been playing like crap for several weeks. NL champion will come out of the West. They have excellent middle relief, and just finished the season with a sweep of the Nationals. Wright finished with a 12 game hitting streak. They're ready.

Unlikely? I don't get it. It's more than likely. And this time it will be competitive, as opposed to that dreary 2000 series.

It seems every news story or PR handout about some group playing in a church basement or library rec room, must include the phrase somewhere in the headline. Ditto, if there is going to be a concert at a local park. "BAR-B-QUE AND THREE-LEGGED RACES AND ALL THAT JAZZ!"

"Randy Twizzle -- Where the heck did you come up with that Eddie Fisher review?" I found it at the same place I get most of the stuff I bore people here with, newspaperarchive.com. A simple "Larry Kart" search brings up number of syndicated entertainment articles and reviews, mostly from the 70s and 80s and largely from papers in Elyria and Lima Ohio and Syracuse NY, though there is a rave Johnny Mathis review from 1977 that appeared in a Pasadena newspaper. The Fisher review came from the Lima News on Nov. 30, 1977.

Was it worse than this?

I understand that he also has bad breath, is lousy in bed and may have also kidnapped the Lindbergh baby.

I prefer Richard Cohen's opinion of Colbert's performance:

Very interesting, but you left out Shelly, the greedy ex-wife, Sapperstein the blood sucking attorney and Vince the brawny loan shark.

Fats Navarro was born in Florida

I'm not trying to start further trouble here, but I did find this Scott Yanow reference to Allen Lowe in an AMG review of a Pete Fountain CD."New Orleans All Stars." I don't think it's been mentioned in this thread. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:ez1uak3khm3p

In my travels through time I found this article. I wondered who these unfortunate musicians were and what happened to them after the attack. A google search shows that it was the Sammy Stewart Orchestra, a society orchestra out of Columbus Ohio. They went on to have some success throughtout the 20s and later editions of the band even included Chu Berry and Sid Catlett http://www.redhotjazz.com/stewart.html

Society is to blame.

Ahem. When did Colbert appear on the Charlie Rose show? Rose's own site makes no mention of a Colbert appearance, and you can search for every guest who has ever appeared. If we can't trust you to correctly remember a simple incident like someone appearing on a talk show, why should we trust your memory of larger trends? Who the fuck is asking you to trust me? I'm not your goddamn spiritual advisor. I'm giving my opinion feel free to ignore it. The alleged Rose appearance was mentioned early in the thread. Perhaps you should base your opinions on actual facts, and not some stuff one guy on a jazz bulletin board happens to misremember. Sorry but I don't think the Rose mistake changes much of anything. My real mistake was daring to deviate from the accepted opinion of all you free thinkers. OK I'll make a mid-course correction: Colbert was a brave truth teller daring to confront the evil Bush at great personal risk to his career and possibly his life. In fact his picture is going up on my wall right next to Hugo Chavez' and that director of that Bush snuff film.